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At the going down the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
ALT A black and white historical image shows a group of soldiers walking through a battlefield. Overlaid is a large red poppy with the words "LEST WE FORGET" in the center. Below, "REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2026" is written. A crest is at the top of the image.
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Last Thursday, Andy Burnham’s used a private jet flight go from London to Manchester to watch an Everton game.
In 2023, Rachel Reeves said that Labour would "crack down on Tory ministers’ private jet habit."
If an opponent did this, people like Angela Rayner would be furious.
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Never forget the sacrifices that they made
I have respect for each and every one of them.
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Of the more than 760,000 people who came to Britain on the Health & Care visa, more than 470,000 were relatives. They will now all be allowed to stay in Britain. Forever. While claiming benefits, council housing, student loans, and more.
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Bonfire Night is not the problem. People are respectful on 5 November and at the weekend. It’s the other ‘festivals’ where you get rockets going off in to the early hours. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crp3…
These morons have lost the plot. Disgusting. They don’t even know what JK Rowling believes in. And how deranged do you have to be to want to disrupt something this magical for children?
🧙♂️ HARRY POTTER STORE HIJACKED 🧙♂️
The UK's biggest Harry Potter store opened on Oxford Street today. Hundreds of fans queued for hours, many of them kids.
Waiting for them were a bunch of crazie unhinged trans activists with megaphones, chanting that JK Rowling has "blood on her hands" and telling parents they shouldn't read Harry Potter to their children. 😡
What on earth is a trans Hufflepuff when it's at home?! 🤣🤣🤔
The fans just walked straight past them and went in. JK wins again. 💪
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Think about this for a second.
They can't allow the child stars of the show at the event bc trans activists are so fucking unhinged the CHILDREN'S safety can't be ensured.
All because JK.R doesn't believe that a man can become a woman and bc she supports women and girls. 😶
🚨🚨Arabella Stanton and the other child stars of HBO's 'HARRY POTTER'' series will NOT attend the premiere amid fears of protests.
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These Birmingham councillors are a disgrace.
Rubbish is piling up in the streets of Birmingham, the council had to be bailed out by UK taxpayers, and the city's youth unemployment is the highest in Britain.
But instead of looking after the needs of local residents, the City Council's coalition of clowns spent last night passing a motion on Israel.
I’d say this is a pretty clear statement #avfc
Aston Villa held an important working meeting today to plan the club's future and lay the foundations for its long-term sporting and institutional project.
The meeting brought together Nassef Sawiris, the club's Chairman and Unai Emery alongside President of Football Operations Roberto Olabe and Director of Football Operations Damián Vidagany.
The discussions focused on jointly planning the club's long-term strategic direction, with positive discussions establishing a clear commitment beyond 2029 for the joint development of the club under the sporting leadership of Unai Emery based on the shared ambitions and common goal to reach excellency and keep growing during the next years.
The objective is clear: to build an ambitious, competitive Aston Villa capable of taking on the biggest challenges and achievements.
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Petition to free Palestine. Everyone wanted to sign the petition until the terms were read to them.
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Labour give 1.9million people indefinite leave to remain in this country.
ONE POINT NINE MILLION.
Not even mentioned on @BBCNewsnight.
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On behalf of the British people, I would like to apologise for the slave trade. I am sorry we were the first great power in history to turn its guns on it. I am sorry it cost us around 2,000 sailors to free 150,000 people they would never meet. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.
Slavery did not begin with Britain. It is as old as civilisation. Babylon wrote it into law. Rome built an empire on it. The Vikings sold Englishmen through the slave market at Dublin. In 1625 Barbary corsairs took 60 men, women and children out of a Cornish church; by 1640 Parliament was told 3,000 to 5,000 English people were held in Algiers alone.
Every great power of the age took part in the Atlantic trade. Portugal and Spain for a century before an English ship did. Then the Dutch, the French — and the British, who in the eighteenth century carried more than anyone. That is the record. It is not disputed here.
Then a nation turned on the trade that had made it rich.
Wilberforce's bill was beaten year after year. On 25 March 1807 it passed. Then Britain did the part the critics never mention — it sent the Royal Navy to enforce it. The West Africa Squadron sailed in 1808, two ships for 3,000 miles of coast, and hunted slavers for nearly sixty years. Britain paid Spain and Portugal to open their ships to search. HMS Black Joke ran down the slaver El Almirante in 1829 and found 466 people in her hold.
Around 2,000 British sailors died doing it — most of fever, to free people they would never meet. 1,600 slave ships seized. 150,000 Africans set free.
In 1833 Parliament borrowed £20 million to end slavery across the Empire. The debt was not finally redeemed until 2015. The United States needed a civil war. Cuba held slaves until 1886. Brazil until 1888 — eighty-one years after Westminster voted.
Yes, we took part in the trade. Every power of the age did. None of them fought it like we did.
So yes. I will apologise. I am sorry it cost us so much. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.
That is not something you apologise for. That is something you teach.
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